bnicholas26
Well-known member
So I walk into Guitar Center to get a simple capo, and of course I end up wandering over to the acoustic guitar room. Many ukes. mostly what you would expect from guitar center: Lanikai, Fender, Luna?, and aNueNue?..... the nue nue concert sounded nice but i could tell it was mostly machine made. nice tuners though. The luna's are just pure crap i won't even name the reasons (you already know them). The Lanikais were nice but most of them were unreachable on the wall being their "top of the line". but they looked nice and i played the soprano nato which was definitely worth $59. They had a Mitchell concert (mahogany gloss), this thing was built like a tank, i could have hammered nails with it, nice thick neck and body, but it did have Hilo black strings on it which i personally think is a mistake. Now on to the Fender tenor.....it said all koa but i was suspicious, it didn't look like the koa WE are used to (made in indonesia). abalone purflings and rosette. It sounded AWESOME (no pickup), the g string buzzed a little and the action needed adjustment BUT it had a good full robust sound, it was almost like having a baritone tuned GCEA. the tuners were a little sub-standard but passable. $200. ....I will say this in guitar center's defense, they keep all the acoustic instruments in a nice wood climate controlled room where you can strum anything on the wall. I played around for 45 minutes until i started feeling like i was taking advantage. If you guys are ever bored, spend some time there, it's fun to play other ukes.